

An edition of The Roald Dahl Omnibus (1986)
By Roald Dahl
Publish Date
1993
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Language
eng
Pages
682
Description:
Contains: From [Someone Like You](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45868W/Someone_Like_You) [Taste](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15091200W/Taste) [Lamb to the Slaughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504418W/Lamb_to_the_Slaughter) [Man from the South](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504421W/Man_from_the_South) [The Soldier](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504424W/The_Soldier) [Dip in the Pool](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504442W/Dip_in_the_Pool) [Galloping Foxley](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504444W/Galloping_Foxley) [Skin](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504460W/Skin) [Poison](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504477W/Poison) [Wish](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504494W/The_Wish) [Neck](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504509W/Neck) [Sound Machine](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8318678W/The_Sound_Machine) [Nunc Dimittis](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504524W/Nunc_Dimittis) [Great Automatic Grammatizator](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504542W/The_Great_Automatic_Grammatizator) Claud's Dog [Ratcatcher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504625W/The_Ratcatcher) [Rummins](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504633W/Rummins) [Mr Hoddy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504639W/Mr_Hoddy) [Mr Feasey](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504641W/Mr_Feasey) From [Kiss Kiss](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16248853W/Kiss_Kiss) [Landlady](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504259W/Landlady) [William and Mary](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504266W/William_and_Mary) [The Way Up to Heaven](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504268W/The_Way_Up_to_Heaven) [Royal Jelly](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504271W/Royal_Jelly) [Georgy Porgy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504272W/Georgy_Porgy) [Genesis and Catastrophe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504273W/Genesis_and_Catastrophe) [Edward the Conqueror](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504274W/Edward_the_Conqueror) [Pig](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504275W/Pig) [Champion of the World](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504277W/Champion_of_the_World) From [Switch Bitch](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45873W/Switch_Bitch) [Great Switcheroo](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15091023W/The_Great_Switcheroo) [Last Act](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504394W/The_Last_Act) [Bitch](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504401W/Bitch)
subjects: fictional work, short stories, Manners and customs, social life and customs, flashback, olfaction, chemists, funding, research, sexology, boxing, sexual intercourse, cardiovascular disease, breasts, safety pins, short story, gynecology, martinis, menopause, macabre, diners, cannibalism, Weihnachtsbaum, Kinderszenen, reincarnation, cats, Austrian Germans, doctors, Midwives, beekeepers, royal jelly, grubs, cancer, brain, artificial hearts, Ringer's solution, phantom limbs, widows, Short horror story, cyanide, caviar, Bungarus, World War I, World War II, begging, prefects, cruise ships, betting pools, caregivers, dementia, Fiction, stockbrokers, Oenophilia, horror, black comedy, detectives, alibi, Cadillacs, English nursery rhymes, neurosis, celibacy, vicars, spinsters, sexual repression, seduction, abstinence, soft drinks, summer houses, involuntary commitment, psychiatrists, sadism
People: Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, Henri Biotte, Pierre Lacaille, Simone, Marcel Brossolet, Elvira Ponsomby, Daughters of the American Revolution, Anna Cooper, Ed, Conrad Kreuger, Jerry Rainbow, Samantha Rainbow, Vic Hammond, Mary Hammond, Claud, Lexington, Aunt Glosspan, Mr. Zuckermann, Edward, Louisa, Antonio Vivaldi, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahm, Epictetus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Roosevelt, Julius Caesar, Frédéric Chopin, Klara Hitler, Otto Hitler, Gustav Hitler, Ida Hitler, Alois Hitler, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), George, Lady Birdwell, Miss Roach, Albert Taylor, Mabel Taylor, Eugene Foster, Mrs Foster, William Pearl, Mary Pearl, Landy, Billy Weaver, Christopher Mulholland, Gregory W. Temple, Mr Feasey, Mr Hoddy, Lionel Lampson, Gladys Ponsonby, Janet de Pelagia, John Royden, Klausner, Basil Turton, Natalia Turton, Major Haddock, Jelks, Henry Moore, Harry Pope, Timber Woods, Dr. Ganderbai, Drioli, Chaim Soutine, Josie, narrator, William Perkins, Bruce Foxley, William Botibol, Mike Schofield, Richard Pratt, Louise Schofield, Mary Maloney, Patrick Maloney, Carlos
Places: England, Paris, Belguim, Provence, United States of America, Waldorf Astoria, New York, Dallas, Texas, New York City, Eton College, Cambridge, London, Europe, Fleet Street, India, British Empire, Céret, Le Havre, Bristol Hotel, Cannes, Buenos Aires, Mike Schofield's house, Jamaica
Times: 20th century, Autumn 1913, 1960s